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Drinking Old Wine
Many of our favorite wines have been old bottles. While the great majority of wines are made to be consumed within a couple of years of their production, the relatively few wines that are intended to age can offer absolutely magical tasting experiences.
We are pleased to offer older wine

Decanting Wine
The following will GREATLY enhance your pleasure with a bottle of older wine. It may sound like a hassle, but it’s really not so bad, and well worth the trouble.
Basic Wine Decanting 101
There is nothing complicated or mysterious about this process; just follow these simple instruct

New from the Jura: Les Granges Paquenesses!Loreline Laborde is living the fantasy many city dwellers have during rush hour: fleeing the city to live a quiet life in harmony with nature. After completing her formal studies in viticulture, Loreline left the bustling city of Montpellier to make wine in the undulating foothills of Tourmont, a vi

Broc Cellars Rocks!Based out of Berkeley, California, Broc Cellars is an exciting winery, headed by winemaker Chris Brockway, that focuses on offbeat wines from intriguing and often much older vineyards. Their winemaking process uses only native yeasts with minimal doses of SO2 at bottling. These wines

Chambers Street Holiday Whiskey GuideWhen the weather starts dipping below freezing and the holidays are upon us, I increasingly find myself reaching for a dram of the darker stuff. And as I look for interesting and exciting gifts for friends and family, a bottle of small batch and handcrafted whiskey makes it to the top of my list. Wh

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Tastings & Events

Featured Articles

Drinking Old Wine
Many of our favorite wines have been old bottles. While the great majority of wines are made to be consumed within a couple of years of their production, the relatively few wines that are intended to age can offer absolutely magical tasting experiences.
We are pleased to offer older wine

Decanting Wine
The following will GREATLY enhance your pleasure with a bottle of older wine. It may sound like a hassle, but it’s really not so bad, and well worth the trouble.
Basic Wine Decanting 101
There is nothing complicated or mysterious about this process; just follow these simple instruct

New from the Jura: Les Granges Paquenesses!Loreline Laborde is living the fantasy many city dwellers have during rush hour: fleeing the city to live a quiet life in harmony with nature. After completing her formal studies in viticulture, Loreline left the bustling city of Montpellier to make wine in the undulating foothills of Tourmont, a vi

Broc Cellars Rocks!Based out of Berkeley, California, Broc Cellars is an exciting winery, headed by winemaker Chris Brockway, that focuses on offbeat wines from intriguing and often much older vineyards. Their winemaking process uses only native yeasts with minimal doses of SO2 at bottling. These wines

Chambers Street Holiday Whiskey GuideWhen the weather starts dipping below freezing and the holidays are upon us, I increasingly find myself reaching for a dram of the darker stuff. And as I look for interesting and exciting gifts for friends and family, a bottle of small batch and handcrafted whiskey makes it to the top of my list. Wh

Hanging with Riesling and friends, Saar valley, 2018.

German Wines from Private Collections

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Sometimes in the midst of a grand feast (even one consisting of your favorite foods) one craves a reset, or palate cleanser, if you will. Something light and fresh and featuring high acidity helps to wake up the appetite. And in the middle of all these great wines from the Veronelli Cellar we thought it might be nice to feature a selection of Rieslings to revive the soul and act as an intermezzo. Please see below a fine selection German wines from a number of our favorite producers to inspire thirst in the most fatiguied palates. Prost!

Euchariusberg is one of Falkenstein's finest sites. It's quite steep, mostly blue slate and produces wines of great finesse that likely have the longest potential to age. It's mildly sweeter than the Hofberg this vintage, but holy bananas, this wine is something special. Peaches, melons, hay and tons and tons of slate on the finish. So much acid, so much slate, this is quintessential Saar in a glass. If the name on the bottle were different, we guarantee this wine would sell for exponentially larger amounts of money. It's multi-faceted, it's delightful and it's world-class Auslese. -jfr

Euchariusberg is a steep, south-facing vineyard with a long history of acclaim. The topsoil is quite meager, with gray slate and quartzite making up the balance. This bottling is sourced from two different plots on the hill. I don’t say this enough with the Falkenstein wines, but these wines can age, especially the higher Prädikat levels. This is a prime example: fresh and accessible now, yet masterfully balanced and fully capable of being enjoyed in 20+ years. If only I had the patience. Cari Bernard

This finely elegant Kabinett (85 Oeschle) adds luster to W-K's reputation for refined and graceful wines. The nose floats spicier aromas of cinnamon, cloves, mace, and fresh ginger that dance around a core lime juice, orange blossoms, and orange marmalade. The palate is remarkably lifted by a high wire act of minerality, lime zest and ginger before an orange blossom finish. This has all that one could hope for in a Kabinett and holds high the tradition of great Mosel Kabinett!

The Ellergrub is a top-tier vineyard site with an extremely steep grade and ample amounts of dark blue and gray slate at various states of erosion. The old vines here give grapes that are perfectly suited for wines that exemplify Weiser-Kunstler's pursuit of tension and structure. Cari Bernard